Confounded Face Emoji
What does the Confounded Face emoji mean?
A round yellow face with tightly scrunched eyes and a wavering, crumpled mouth, as if biting its lip or trying to hold back tears. It’s used to show being overwhelmed by emotions like stress, sadness, or frustration, and often to signal that you’ve had enough.
A scrunched, wrinkled face that conveys a sense of panic or bewilderment. The eyes are shut, forming the letter "X". The mouth is unusually drawn as a wavy line.
People use this emoji to express frustration, anger, confusion, and a sense of helplessness — it looks like the face is on the verge of tears from overwhelming emotion.
Also Known As
- 😖 Quivering Mouth
- 😖 Scrunched Face
Apple Name
- 😖 Confounded Face
Unicode Name
- 😖 Confounded Face
How does this emoji look on different platforms?
Download the Confounded Face emoji
Vector file from the Noto Emoji set by Google, licence CC BY 4.0.
😖 Emoji Codes
Codepoints
U+1F616
Shortcodes
- works in Github, Slack, Discord
- works in Emojipedia
For developers
| URL escape code | %F0%9F%98%96 |
| Punycode | xn--028h |
| Bytes (UTF-8) | F0 9F 98 96 |
| JavaScript, JSON, Java | \uD83D\uDE16 |
| C, C++, Python | \U0001f616 |
| CSS | \01F616 |
| PHP, Ruby | \u{1F616} |
| Perl | \x{1F616} |
| HTML hex | 😖 |
| HTML dec | 😖 |
Tags: confounded, face, annoyed, confused, cringe, distraught, feels, frustrated, mad, sad
Category: Smileys & Emotion
Subgroup: Sad & worried